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Sat 04 Apr 2010Chilean cult leader Schaefer dies
Former Nazi Paul Schaefer, who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children, died of heart failure in a prison hospital today, officials said. He was 88.
Chile's courts began investigating Schaefer on sex abuse charges in 1997. He fled to Argentina where he hid until he was found in 2005. He was returned to Chile and sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 25 children.
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